The director of the Civil Guard was only interested in the UCO investigations that affected the PSOE

The director of the Civil Guard, Mercedes González, was only aware of the reserved investigations directed against the UCO and had no knowledge of those activated against other units of the Civil Guard other than the one that was surrounding the PSOE and the president of the Government.

This is clear from the information provided in writing at the National Court by his right-hand man, the deputy operational director (DAO) Manuel Llamas. Both he and the director are accused in the Cloacas case, due to suspicions that they used these internal investigations as a pressure measure to dissuade agents from delving into causes such as the Koldo case or the Hermanísimo case.

After declaring himself under investigation on July 16, Judge Santiago Pedraz demanded, at the suggestion of Anti-Corruption, that he specify in writing which reserved investigations the general director had been informed of, both their opening and their closure.

Regarding the UCO, information was requested from two files, numbered 1/24 and 1/25. As for the rest of the Civil Guard units "other than the UCO", the DAO had explained that there were three.

The response sent to Judge Pedraz reflects a different pattern of behavior depending on the affected unit: Mercedes González had a crucial role in the reserved investigations open to the UCO and had no relationship with those that went in any other direction.

Regarding the files outside the unit that the Leire Díez plumber's plot wanted to deactivate, the DAO responds as follows: "Of the three confidential information prepared in as many units dependent on the DAO, neither the beginning nor the end of the same was sent to the general director, since she was unrelated to its genesis and had no participation or prior knowledge in its origin or in its processing. They were internal governance issues that the DAO itself resolved with the commanders who were ordered to initiate it".

The situation of the two internal investigations at the UCO was something else. The first was opened at the end of 2024. Data from Begoña Gómez's private email had appeared in the press, coming from the leak of a letter from the UCO in the investigation of Pedro Sánchez's brother. The director was informed of the beginning and end, because "the Director General herself was at the genesis of it, through a call, as well as another from the Minister of the Interior." The minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, took up the matter directly with the DAO after the director was unable to answer the phone due to coverage problems. Then the director called her number two about the same matter. "Through both calls, the DAO was informed about the damages caused by the disclosure of the personal data of people unrelated to the investigation being carried out by the UCO before a court in Badajoz."